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Old 01-09-2017, 04:14 PM   #1
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Old 01-09-2017, 10:07 PM   #2
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You mean our internet will now be WORSE than third world?
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Old 01-09-2017, 10:16 PM   #3
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You mean our internet will now be WORSE than third world?
No, no, no. It was never as good as a 3rd world country.
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We were already worse before
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Old 01-09-2017, 10:47 PM   #5
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Came here to post the dial-up sound effect.
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Old 03-09-2017, 03:10 PM   #7
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Very good.

Came here to post the dial-up sound effect.
Dial-up !!!!!!! I wish, Im still waiting for the pigeon to land to check my email, and im on NBN!!!!!!!
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Old 03-09-2017, 05:06 PM   #8
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ive gone back to sending my emails the fast way
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who am I kidding
convicts and immigrants got here faster than our mail and internet ever will
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convicts and immigrants got here faster than our mail and internet ever will
Three weeks, 15 working days to send a USB thumb drive to Perth from country Victoria.
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Old 03-09-2017, 05:54 PM   #10
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Three weeks, 15 working days to send a USB thumb drive to Perth from country Victoria.
and the sad part is (as ive done so) I know how long it takes to drive a road train there and back with the "its urgent" only to find out how long it sits each end
hell I can (and legally) do coast to coast on a few days not three weeks
but what do you expect when you can get a parcel from over seas landed faster in you capital and then for it to take over a week from customs release to the few k"s to your suburb
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I don't really know if it will affect speed that much as most reputable ISPs will have enough capacity on an alternative route to allow the failure of one of their routes out of Australia.
This cut basically means that your data to and from Asia will take a little longer to arrive.
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Old 05-09-2017, 07:25 PM   #12
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People in Perth will probably feel it the most. Their traffic will have to jump over to Sydney before leaving the country.
Fingers crossed that it's repaired quickly. :(

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So it looks like we all have to move our asses and go down to the local Club X to watch our porn.
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Old 24-10-2017, 05:21 PM   #14
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Have had an outage in my area since last Thursday, it's been on for 2 hours off for 4 etc.

For those that don't know and have this option, you can tether your mobile phone to your PC/Laptop using it as a hotspot to use your mobile data allowance to access the internet from your device. If you chose this path make sure you can check how much data you have used otherwise you could be in for a big bill (seriously ignore this post if you are unable to check your current mobile usage)$$$$

I'm with Telstra and the phone app is live. Seeing that I was getting close to my monthly limit of 3.5 gig I decided to give them a call. Boring stuff aside I managed to get an extra 10 gig added to my monthly mobile ration..... ''interim'' so they call it - didn't know you could do this )
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Old 24-10-2017, 07:18 PM   #15
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Haven't noticed anything. Speeds been fairly consistent. Even with more traffic in the recent months.
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Old 28-10-2017, 09:44 PM   #16
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Fixed. Even though there was an outage and maintenance in my area, there was an additional problem that got progressively worse, something to do with a splitter/Foxtel. I could barely understand the guy but he was running tests for over an hour, then went underground and replaced something and now connection is better than it has been for as long as I can remember. With cable I'm getting a consistent 37 Mbps.
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Another slow down? I was thinking about going back to letters and stamps as it is
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